Principal engineer

???? We're Hiring: Staff/Principal Engineer (Java) - Remote???? Location: Remote | ???? Global Team | ???? Experience: 8–12 yearsReady to build the future of hotel distribution at scale?At Hotel Trader, we're not just another travel-tech company—we're the cloud-native B2 B platform revolutionizing how hotels connect with global demand. Backed by Highgate Technology Ventures and founded by serial travel-tech entrepreneurs, we're scaling fast and building something extraordinary.???? The Scale We Operate At
• 1 B+ search requests per day
• 40ms average response time
• 200 M+ inbound messages daily
• Live integrations with Hilton, Highgate, Wyndham (expanding rapidly across US & Europe)???? Our Growth StoryIn just 18 months, we've:
• Tripled our team size
• Achieved 100% Yo Y revenue growth
• Scaled globally with real revenue traction━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━???? What You'll DoAs a Staff/Principal Engineer, you'll be our technical backbone—a hands-on leader who drives by doing:Architecture & Systems
• Drive system design and platform architecture decisions
• Build scalable, resilient systems using Java (Spring Boot) and event-driven architectures
• Solve real-time, high-throughput challenges in search, pricing, and booking workflowsLeadership & Delivery
• Own end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives from design to deployment
• Lead multiple high-impact projects simultaneously
• Mentor teams while solving the most complex, ambiguous technical challengesInnovation
• Embrace AI-powered development (Claude, Cursor) to boost productivity
• Build automation-first solutions and internal platforms
• Focus on performance optimization and low-latency system design━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━???? Our Tech StackBackend: Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS ECS, Scylla DB, Mongo DB, Kafka, RedisPlatform: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Git Hub ActionsData & AI (Good to have) : Databricks, Spark, Claude, Lang Graph, RAG pipelinesObservability: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What We're Looking ForMust-Have:
• 8-12 years backend development experience
• Deep Java expertise (Spring Boot, Hibernate)
• Hands-on developer who can code, architect, and lead by example
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and timelines
• Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders - Product teams, Clients, and Cross-functional tech teams
• Distributed systems experience with event-driven architectures
• No SQL databases (Scylla DB, Mongo DB)
• Performance optimization and latency tuning skills
• Ownership mindset with proven track record of delivering mission-critical projectsBonus Points:
• LLM pipelines, RAG, or agentic AI experience
• Databricks, Spark, or large-scale data processing
• Travel-tech or B2 B marketplace background
• Full-stack experience with React━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━???? Why Join Hotel Trader?Impact: Shape a high-GMV, global-scale B2 B platform transforming an entire industryTech: Work with cutting-edge stack including Scylla DB, Kafka, AWS, AI tools, and moreCulture: Remote-first, ownership-heavy environment where engineering excellence is non-negotiableGrowth: Join during our rapid expansion phase and grow with us━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Ready to build the next generation of hotel distribution????? Interested? Drop me a message or apply directly - let's chat about how you can help us scale to the next levelShare this post if you know someone who'd be a great fit ????#hiring #java #distributedsystems #microservices #remotework #traveltech #engineerjobs #scaleup #seniordeveloper #principalengineerHotel Trader is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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